Conveners
Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination: Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination
- Chairperson: Leonardo Gariboldi
Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination
- Chairperson: Sofia Talas
Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination
- Chairperson: Sofia Talas
Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination
- Chairperson: Sofia Talas
Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination
- Chairperson: Marisa Michelini
Dialogo storia, didattica e divulgazione / Dialogue between History, Teaching and Dissemination
- Chairperson: Matteo Leone
Personal culture can be considered as that rich knowledge that makes people able of a broad vision, new ideas, and personal reflections about reality. With social culture, instead, we mean those habits, values and behaviours adopted by a given society. But we can also consider disciplinary culture, i.e., the one “identified” by a disciplinarily differentiated group, like physicists. It is from...
Abbé Nollet is known as the first professor of experimental physics in France in the 18th century. However, at that time, some technical school provided already an excellent technical education
But physics teaching in general education really took shape after the revolution and with the creation of the "lycées" by Napoleon. Curricula were then published, along with lists of equipment to be...
The Enrico Fermi Museum is located in the historical building at via Panisperna in Rome, once the "Royal Physical Institute". Here, in the 1930s, Enrico Fermi and a group of young physicists led the famous experiments on radioactivity induced by neutrons, fundamental for understanding the structure of the atomic nucleus (Nobel Prize 1938). The Museum retraces the significant stages of Fermi's...
This communication deals with a short but exhaustive historical development of two different viewpoints about the diffraction phenomenon. This foreword to introduce the first and dramatic phenomenology observed since the end of the XVII century. Pedagogical observations are revisited about this first phenomenon observed. Impetus to this paper was given by a critical question posed by a student...
Science. Anciently defined as “knowledge”, but nowadays it is associated with pragmatism, dogmatism and technological advance within itself. Something, some say, impossible to reach.
In 1623, Galileo thought of creating a widespread scientific community where everyone could make science freely. But how can someone teach and divulge science in an ultra-technological world and moreover, fight a...
The interest in physical properties of glass is a constant in scientific literature and when the United Nations General Assembly declared 2022 to be the International Year of Glass, a number of researches gained new impetus. Material scientists paid increasing attention to some curious glass behaviors, known for centuries and apparently of historical interest, being now possible to obtain...
The new technologies are changing every aspect of our life, socially and workwise. In the same way, digital tools are becoming increasingly important to protect, preserve, and valorise cultural heritage. The digitalization of the archive’s documents and ancient books, the realization of augmented reality apps for museums, or even the creation of virtual realities set in cultural or landscape...
The teaching of Physics and Chemistry at the university level has traditionally presented a static and definitive view of science that was established in the early 20th century. However, contemporary research in science education has fostered a new perspective on the significance of the history of science as a source of metascientific knowledge for the improvement of educational practices. By...
Some real-world phenomena may capture students' attention and trigger their curiosity. The rolling of a can on a conveyor belt in the supermarket; the observation of the optimal angle in a weight-throwing competition; the running of a sprinter; the trajectory of a ball or a water droplet in the air; a coloured line appearance on a CD or a DVD under white light; the kinematics of fireworks; the...
Starting from the ideas developed in the Asiago TEachers’ Network on Astrophysics (ATENA), a teaching-learning sequence has been organized to introduce the topic of gravitation to 16 years old students in a Liceo Scientifico. A major role was played by the instruments belonging to the collection of the School Physics Laboratory some of which are historical instruments. Examples are the...
In this paper we bring light on some aspects of the Corrado Bonfanti’s book collection held at “I.T.S. Alessandro Volta” in Trieste. The attention will focus on four books, two about quantum mechanics, one about relativity and one about television all dating from the first three decades of the twentieth century.
The two books on quantum mechanics (written by Antonio Carrelli and Enrico...
